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Xanthoxylum

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Xanthoxylum Fraxineum · Prickly Ash · "The Prickly Ash Neuralgia Remedy"

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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 Acts primarily on the sensory nerves and the female reproductive system, producing intense, radiating pains and a sensation of electrical shocks.

📖 Clarke writes:

Xanthoxylum americanum. X. fraxineum. Prickly Ash. Toothache-tree. N. O. Rutaceae. Tincture of fresh bark.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Acts as a great topical stimulant

•Changes the nature of malignant ulcers

•Produces a warm glow through the entire system

•Sensation in the nerves as if gentle shocks of electricity were passing through the body

•Vulnerary action

•Produces symptoms of great severity

•Radiating pains

•Pains are sudden, arouse from sleep, and cause the patient to catch her breath

•Pains are excruciating and unbearable

Temperament & Physical Profile

•Especially suited to women of spare habit, nervous temperament, and delicate organizations

•Brunette

•Fair

•Emaciated, feeble, wrinkled woman

•Patient is nervous, depressed, lazy, and sleepy even in the daytime

•Appetite poor; disgust for food

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Nervous

•Depressed

•Lazy and sleepy even in the daytime

•Disordered sensation

•Symptoms of levitation

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Mouth and stomach feel as if on fire; desire to open the mouth to let cool air in

•Left half of the body becomes numb; left half of the head sharply divided in sensation from the other half

•Fulness in the head

•Severe dysmenorrhoeal pains, with increased and anticipating flow

•Pain confined to head, heart, throat, and pelvis

•Leucorrhoea with amenorrhoea

•Neuralgic pain in right ovarian region

•Fetid, yellowish white discharge from vagina

•Hot pricking pain in right ovary

•Headache accompanied with red, hot face

•Heart pains accompanied by pallor

•Symptoms WORSE by moving head suddenly

•Neck pain BETTER by pressure and by throwing head back

•Lying down BETTER

•Drink of ice-water BETTER

•Headache BETTER by cold water and in open air

•Pains WORSE in morning; 4 a.m.

Peculiar Sensations

•As if top of head would be taken off by flashes of throb-like pain

•As if bewildered with pain in back of head

•Feeling of looseness or quivering of brain

•As if head falling to pieces

•As if head surrounded by a tight band

•Eyes as if full of sand

•As if pepper in mouth and throat

•As of a bunch in throat

•Tongue as if expanding and contracting

•As if throat swollen and enlarged

•Throat as if in a vice

•Back of neck as if stiff

•Coccyx as if elongated

•As if floating in the air

•As if walking on wool

•As if sunk deep in bed

•As if body expanded

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Severe dysmenorrhea with pains radiating to the thighs and back, often with an early and profuse flow.

Clarke

Sensation of numbness on the left side of the body, with a sharp division of sensation in the head.

Clarke

Neuralgic pains that feel like gentle shocks of electricity passing through the body.

Clarke

Heart pains that cause the patient to catch their breath and turn pale.

Clarke

Giddiness with nausea, worse after rising, forcing the patient to lie down.

Clarke

Headache with stiffness in the nape, relieved by hard pressure or throwing the head back.

Clarke

Sensation of levitation or floating when sitting.

Clarke

Peppery, burning sensation in the mouth, throat, and esophagus.

Clarke

Waking from sleep with a feeling of suffocation and intense pain.

Clarke

Extreme sensitivity of the coccyx, making it impossible to sit without a cushion.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

✨ Clarke Exclusive

🧠Mind

Nervous exhaustion, hysteria, and a state of indifference or malaise.

Nervous, frightened feeling.

Easily startled, hysterical.

Depression and weakness.

Indifference and malaise.

Did not care if she lived or died.

Seemed entirely void of ideas.

🔑 Modalities

✨ Clarke Exclusive

↓Worse from

Rising

giddiness

nausea

↑Better from

Hard pressure

nape stiffness

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Chamomilla →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

Compiled from classical homeopathic texts in the public domain. Click any active source badge to open the original text. For educational and reference purposes only. Always consult a qualified homeopath for treatment.